Apropos of nothing, when Fantasy Flight acquired the Netrunner license in 2012 they reimagined the original game's setting for the 21st century.
Their new Android: Netrunner was forward-looking in its depiction of race, gender and corporations. It made cyberpunk relevant to now.
Their new Android: Netrunner was forward-looking in its depiction of race, gender and corporations. It made cyberpunk relevant to now.
Corporations were still the enemy in this re-imagined Netrunner, but they were friendly, PR-softened entities that promised to make your life easier if you'd just sign on the dotted line. Naturally, they were all the more recognisable and frightening for it.